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Episode 21: "The Clash to Prove the Sword - Zeke vs Bach!!!"
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"Yours you say?" Bach smiled wide, "Hahahaha! I like your spirit... But this isn't something for little kids to be playing with. You CAN'T beat me... I could KILL you... So just step aside, and just this once I'll let a weak soul live..."
Zeke tilted his head down, a shadow covering his face now.
Bach smiled, thinking he was accepting defeat. Then...
Zeke pulled out Faasuto and Rasuto and placed them in his mouth and pulled out GinKiba and Makezuotorazu and stood in a bull-stance potion.
"Oh... So this is your choice? I guess it WOULD be better for me to kill you. What with your FATHER and all."
Zeke looked angry and confused, "What about my father!?!"
Bach smirked, "Well... Since I couldn't beat Luffy to become Pirate King, I still need a higher rank of symbolism to wage war on the Government and destroy it completely. So the next best thing beside the king would be.... The World s Greatest Swordsman."
He wasn't sure why, but Zeke lost it at that moment, he was fighting here and now for that EXACT same reason. For his loved ones. He knew his father wouldn't die easily if at all. But he could bare even think that.
With that, he lunged at Bach at top speed and slammed his swords for his chest.
*CLANK!!!*
Zeke was stopped completely by Bach simple placing his Claymore sword in front of the blow. "Nice try kid. Hahahaha, you get real intense at a JOKE. I'm not so stupid as to try and kill Roronoa Zoro. Then I would have the entire fury of the King and his followers rain down upon me... And I don't need that. But I like how just say that got you going. YOU GOT FIRE! HAHAHAHAHA!!"
Zeke jumped back, "You're crazy."
Bach huffed but a happy kind of huff, "Thank you, I appreciate it."
"You said you're aiming to destroy the World Government, isn't that what you and the other Younko are doing right now?"
Bach chuckled a little, "Only a fool could see this escapade Chopin and Wolfgang are on ISN'T going to end badly. Even the Great WhiteBeard died on his feet as he tried taking on more than 1000 men at once. Chopin is whining about his damn crystal and wanting an excuse to kill and Wolfgang sees this as a way to kill of some big heads in his was of what ever really plans he has. I know it.... and BEETHOVEN knows it. I came along as a decoy to elude Wolfgang of my REAL purpose. You'll see all of what I'm talking about soon enough. Heheheh, IF you can make it that long."
Bach dug into the dirt with his sword and with great force, swung it up towards Zeke as it glowed a dark red.
"UUUUUUUUWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
*FFFFFOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!*
Rocks, dirt, and gravel all flew up to the sky, destroying the ground Zeke was standing on and flinging him into the air with the rest of the ground.
"LET'S START THIS BOY! AND MAKE IT FUN!!"
Zeke caught his balance and landed on a lard boulder in the air. He pushed off of it and dashed toward Bach. Hopping of one mid-air rock after the other until he reached the man.
*KING!!*
He struck again, but Bach just kept Apolyon in front of him and only tilted towards the area in which Zeke swung to strike, blocking the hit again. "Shit."
Zeke backed up and dashed again, swing in a different direction and form, but again.
*DING!!*
Again, again, again, agian. Different angles, different strike patterns... same result.
Double left sword strike; double right; double downward slash; double upward slash; double left switch right fake; double right upward fake; every combo he could think of. Single strikes, one right, one left; one up, one down;... NOTHING.
*TING* *CHING* *DING* *KING* *CHING* *KINK* *CLINK* *CLING* *SHING* *GING* *GING* *TING* *DING* *CLINK* *SHING*
"Ha... ha... ha... *pant* *pant*... ha... Damn it... *pant* ... ha..." ("Now what....!???")
Bach grinned, "Is this IT!? Are you really Zoro's son!?"
Zeke's mind angered, "Don't EVER.... compare me to my FATHER!!" He swung his sword back behind his head and slung them forward.
*KKIINNNGG!!!!* The attack echoed... but like the others.... did nothing.
"You're right... If this was the REAL Roronoa... I would have had a least a SCRATCH by now!"
He moved his sword, knocking Zeke back and then he kicked him in the chest.
Zeke flew into the dirt and skidded a good distance till he came to a stop. His body was now bruised, cut, scratched, scraped and torn up. He staggered up as Bach walked up to him. "Really? You're even not worth Apolyon? I can just kill you with my bare hands? So pathetic kid! Daddy must be so disappointed." He picked him up by the throat, Zeke had long dropped his swords.
*GRIP!*
Bach's eyes widened as Zeke's hand griped his wrists.... and was HURTING it....
"GUAH!" He threw Zeke off of him. He hit the ground hard.
("SHIT! That actually stung a little... he CRUSHED the bones.....!") He looked over at Zeke who was still on the ground. ("This kid is going to be annoying....")
"Don't.... *cough* *cough*.... Don't talk ill of my father... or me.. *cough* *cough*.... Don't compare me to him... Don't think I'm trying to be him... don't do ANYTHING that involves him! You're fighting against me! NOT Roronoa Zoro.... ME... I may be his son. But if I was going to copy him, I'd be called Jr..... So listen asshole...." He was standing completely up now, wiping the blood of his face and staring down Bach as if nothing happened, "Remember who you're fighting right now.... Roronoa..... ZEKE."
Bach looked surprised he was up... then after a moment he smiled, "Yeah, sure brat. Whatever, you're not daddy.... And you could never HOPE to be like him..."
That taunt did it in, Zeke bolted for him, with no sword in position.
Bach moved his sword in front of the charging Zeke, ready to impale him.
Then, at the last moment, Zeke slid and dove in between Bach's legs.
On the other side Zeke grab GinKiba and spun back around and swung for the ribs.
*BANG!*
"Damn... so close on that one."
Bach had placed Apolyon right when Zeke was about to connect with his sword, ("Shit, he's right... that almost got me that time.")
They broke of their connection and Bach went offensive for really the first time in the entire battle. He swung do his sword to hit Zeke. Zeke sidestepped it and jumped on the blade as it hit the ground.
He ran up the sword to Bach's head and swung GinKiba. Bach ducked easily and punched Zeke in the stomach.
Zeke was knocked backwards and fell to the ground again. Bach lifted up his sword and swung down again, this time Zeke stayed and held off the attack by blocking it with GinKiba.
*DING!*
Zeke lifted the Claymore of his sword and went for another attack. Bach swung around and hit Zeke in a full spin and then thrusted it into Zeke and spun out again.
Zeke dropped his sword, then dropped to his knees as blood spurted out of his body.
Bach smiled, "End Game boy. Guess you really couldn't ever reach DADDY'S level... You're too weak...Jr."
He coughed up some blood and them gabbed some dirt underneath him in anger, "I said.... don't you EVER COMPARE ME TO MY FATHER!!!"
*!!!!!!!!!!!!*
He turned around in ballistic rage and blood shot insane eyes... as a giant aura of blue engulfed his body and the small surrounding area in which he was standing in.
For that special moment that ZEKE was waiting for... THIS was it.
The force of the aura was once again creating a massive wind.... just like the one before.
"What.... the hell is this!?" Bach held up his hands against the brightness generating from this aura.
("NO WAY! Does this kid.... know HAKI!??!!?!?")
To Be Continued...